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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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ITP with ADM - Automatically Update Reference Data

@Sheetal Dehadaraya Recently, we did a demo of ADM to the customer A2A. The customer likes the feature "Automatically publish reference data imported from Cost Transparency". A2A would like to have also a feature for "Automatically Update Referenc...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Ability to specify multiple VTMOS for a native command set

I would like to be able to create NCS on Cisco/*/*/* instead of having to mandatory select a Type
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Stop evaluating an expression when one definition is false

Minimise the checks directly on the device, by stopping evaluation when the first definitions are false.
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 0 Future consideration

Ability to set Javascript NCS timeout on demand

Ability to set a dynamic timeout for Javascript NCS, current default is ~3 minutes before timeout
over 5 years ago in Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager 1 Future consideration

Log Aggregation

We want to be able to retrieve logs generated on the managed clusters through APIs exposed on the MCM hub. W up to and including pods.
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Future consideration

Support Yocto Linux for IEAM edge device

Add support Yocto Linux 2.5.1 and 2.5.1+ on Intel Atom processor for IEAM edge device prerequisite OS. IEAM edge device prerequisite OS is described below. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSFKVV_4.1/devices/installing/adding_devices.ht...
over 4 years ago in Edge Application Manager 4 Not under consideration

Additional Topic Metrics for Kafka

Customer monitors Kafka performance based off lag with the topics. Right now we have bytes metrics along with messages in but they need visibility for the Messages Out metric too. Metrics needed: Messages Out Lag (difference in Messages in and out)
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Configuration option for Tracing of SQL query parameters (PostgresQL)

In certain cases, it would be helpful for us to see the query parameters of a query. We would like to have a configuration option to switch tracing on for specific services or even only database entities. E.g. we are having a concurrent access on ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 1 Not under consideration

change time frame resolution in Chart: Time Series.

We want to change the resolution as shown in the chart time series graphs, Instana establishes by default a granularity according to the time frame that one selects., we want to change the resolution in a personalized way, it would allow us to ana...
9 months ago in Instana / Metric Store 2 Future consideration

Netcool probe can connect any other component in service assurance platform

Currently Netcool probe is designed to read only static data as lookup file and can insert data in Objectserver. No other DB or updating alarms is possible. If Netcool probe can handle any other database other than objectserver also can connect an...
over 1 year ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration